Barbie wrote:IN WITH 163/3.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illinois was the best school I applied to. I'M FREAKING OUT!

Barbie wrote:IN WITH 163/3.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illinois was the best school I applied to. I'M FREAKING OUT!

Barbie wrote:IN WITH 163/3.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illinois was the best school I applied to. I'M FREAKING OUT!

Barbie wrote:IN WITH 163/3.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illinois was the best school I applied to. I'M FREAKING OUT!

!!! So happy for you!! See? You are a special snowflake.

Meet up at the ASW?

Can I join?

Of course!! I still think there is some sort of mistake. There is no way this can be real. No way!

Barbie wrote:IN WITH 163/3.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illinois was the best school I applied to. I'M FREAKING OUT!

!!! So happy for you!! See? You are a special snowflake.

Meet up at the ASW?

Can I join?

Yes! Haha, we should coordinate dates...

We should! I'm partial to the March 5th weekend....but April may work.

Barbie wrote:IN WITH 163/3.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illinois was the best school I applied to. I'M FREAKING OUT!

From reading interviews of Pless and speaking with him at the LSAC forum, i think it helps to write it. However, I think its more to show you're writing and persuasion abilities than showing interest in Illinois. But showing interest probably still helps some.

iwanta170 wrote:Congrats everyone! I'm happy for you guys. Just wondering, did everyone who got in write the optional Why Illinois essay?

I didn't write a Why Illinois essay, but I did include a Why Illinois paragraph in my PS.

That's what I did with every school. I wanted to go above and beyond simply substituting "University of X" for "University of Y"

I wrote a specific one for only the schools that I really wanted to go to. If they had an optional one and I didn't have anything to say, I didn't write it. Similarly, if there was no option but I wanted to express my interest anyway, I sent one. Hasn't hurt me yet.

For those of you who are up for a decision next Friday, does your status checker say Under Review yet? I went complete 11/15 although it now says 11/19, and mine doesn't say UR. I really hope I'm in the next batch tho!

Barbie wrote:IN WITH 163/3.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illinois was the best school I applied to. I'M FREAKING OUT!